{"id":435366,"date":"2026-01-27T00:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T00:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/435366\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T00:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T00:46:11","slug":"man-dead-after-targeted-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/435366\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dead after &#8216;targeted&#8217; shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0January 26, 2026 at 5:03PM EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0January 26, 2026 at 2:40PM EST<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A man is dead after a targeted shooting in Vaughan on Monday afternoon, York police say. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident happened in the <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/fyHCAPMq3ZYsSFgy6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/fyHCAPMq3ZYsSFgy6\">Weston and Rowntree Dairy roads<\/a> area at around 1:08 p.m, investigators say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim was found with multiple gunshot wounds and brought to hospital where he died, police say. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SHOOTING IN VAUGHAN<br \/>-1:08 PM Weston Rd and Colossus Drive<br \/>-male shot and has been transported to a local hospital.<br \/>-Suspect vehicle described as a black SUV.<br \/>&#8211; expect large road closures and a large police presence in the area. Please avoid.<br \/>&#8211; we are asking the public to contact\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 York Regional Police (@YRP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YRP\/status\/2015863725345915053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police are \u201cconfident in saying (the shooting) was targeted,\u201d but were unsure why, media relations officer PC Kevin Nebrija said Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators report a call for a vehicle fire in the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/share.google\/6iOxSuOGDlJMKCvnh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/share.google\/6iOxSuOGDlJMKCvnh\">Kipling and Woodbridge avenue<\/a> area. They say they are trying to determine if the two incidents are connected. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">So far no suspect description has been released, but police say a suspect vehicle is described as a black SUV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">There will be a large police presence and road closures in the area, police advised.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0January 26, 2026 at 5:03PM EST Published:\u00a0January 26, 2026 at 2:40PM EST A man is dead after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-435366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}